ADVERTORIAL: BEE® cage implant optimises bone ingrowth and fusion while reducing subsidence
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Pierce Nunley, director of the Spine Institute of Louisiana (Shreveport, USA) and associate professor at LSUHSC Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, talks to Spinal News...
ADVERTORIAL: ESP disc replacement—favouring bone on-growth since 2004
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The ability to restore spinal function is an important consideration when choosing options for the replacement of degenerated...
SpineScan: A key to lean process management to improve quality and reduce costs
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Less is more–The increasing economic burden and complexity in hospital processes forces hospitals to map and improve...
The invisible cost of spine surgery
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Spine surgery is changing—the increasing demands on treatment concepts are making hospital processes more complex, and all departments...
AOSpine and the Global Spine Congress (GSC): An in-depth look
AOSpine is the leading global academic spine community, creating, disseminating, and exchanging knowledge to promote excellence in patient care and outcomes. This supplement will...
“The best of all worlds”: A surgeon’s clinical experience with the Lucent® XP Expandable...
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Hyun W Bae, MD, is a medical director at The Spine Institute (Saint John’s Health Center, Santa...
A neurosurgeon’s experience with PEEK-OPTIMA™ HA Enhanced devices
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Jill Wright Donaldson, MD, is a neurosurgeon at Community Hospital North (Indianapolis, IN, USA), specialising in the surgical...
Ennovate® PolyLock®: Solutions Beyond Fusion
The Ennovate® PentaCore® Screw is the new benchmark in the Pedicle Screw Systems market. Ennovate screws have a significantly higher pullout force, shear strength, and...
What to expect from NASS in 2018 and beyond
As a multidisciplinary membership organization, the North American Spine Society (NASS) has an incredible group of volunteers who work on many initiatives in the...
Advancing spinal surgery with 3D-printed Tritanium® implants “engineered for bone”
Stryker’s 3D-printed Tritanium In-Growth Technology continues to impact spinal surgery. A novel, highly porous titanium material designed for bone in-growth and biological fixation1, Tritanium...
Emerging Implant Technologies on target with disruptive spinal implant designs
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Emerging Implant Technologies (EIT): Cellular Titanium® for improved fusion results
Frustration at the clinical shortcomings of existing cage designs...
i-FACTOR™: Small peptide, big impact
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A FAST, RELIABLE AND PROVEN ALTERNATIVE TO AUTOGRAFT
i-FACTOR peptide-enhanced bone graft is challenging the gold standard in bone...
Rectifying a failed titanium fusion with PEEK-OPTIMA™ HA Enhanced cage and iliac crest autograft
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Timothy Bassett, MD (SouthEastern Spine Specialists, Tuscaloosa, AL,...
Case report: Successful lumbar interbody fusion with PEEK-OPTIMA™ HA Enhanced cage and autograft for...
Timothy Bassett, MD (SouthEastern Spine Specialists, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA) has over 23 years of experience in spinal surgery, predominantly in the treatment of adult...
SpineGuard PediGuard Threaded Device with DSG (Dynamic Surgical Guidance) Technology
In this advertorial, Spinal News International talks to Richard Assaker (Lille, France) and Larry Khoo (Los Angeles, USA) about their experiences with SpineGuard's PediGuard...
Siemens Healthineers: High-end imaging in spinal surgery
Minimally invasive approaches to spinal surgery can lead to less blood loss, faster rehabilitation and a reduction in patient scarring. However, these procedures may also lead...
AESCULAP® XP: Interbody fusion implants
AESCULAP®’s Plasmapore® titanium coating has evolved over the past thirty years. From its 1986 commercial introduction on the BICONTACT hip implant system to its 1995 application...
The ZIP ULTRA™ is “a game changer” for spinal surgery
Interspinous process fixation devices are increasingly being used as minimally invasive alternatives for the management of spinal stenosis and for pedicle screw constructs in...
The Evolution of Fusion: PEEK-OPTIMA® HA Enhanced
For more than a decade, PEEK-OPTIMA Natural, the first medical-grade unfilled PEEK from Invibio Biomaterial Solutions, has been used in spinal fusion surgeries, predominantly...